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The First Published Life of Abraham Lincoln
The First Published Life of Abraham Lincoln Author:John Locke Scripps Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. CHAPTER I.—OF HIS ANCESTRY, THE HARDSHIPS OF HIS EARLY LIFE, AND HIS SELF-EDUCATION. IT is not known at what period the ances... more »tors of Abraham Lincoln came to America. The first account that has been I obtained of them dates back about one hundred and fifty j years, at which time they were living in Berks County, 11 Pennsylvania, and were members of the Society of Friends. Whence or when they came to that region is not known. About the middle of the last century, the great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln removed from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Rocking- ham County, Virginia. There Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather, and Thomas Lincoln, the father of the subject of this sketch, were born. Abraham, the grandfather, had four brothers—Isaac, Jacob, John, and Thomas — descendants of whom are now living in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri. Abraham removed to Kentucky about the year 1780, and four years thereafter, while engaged in opening a farm, he was surprised and killed by Indians; leaving a widow, three sons, and two daughters. The eldest son, Mordecai, remained in Kentucky until late in life, when he removed to Hancock County, Illinois, where he shortly afterward died, and where his descendants still live. The second son, Josiah, settled many years ago on Blue River, in Harrison County, Indiana. The eldest daughter, Mary, was married to Ralph Grume, and some of her descendants are now living in Breckenridge County, Kentucky. The second daughter, Nancy, was married to William Brumfield, and her descendants are supposed to be living in Kentucky. $ Thomas, the youngest son, and father of the subject of this sketch, by the death of his father and the very narrow circumstances of his mother, was thrown upon his own resourc...« less